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    The start

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    I've always admired the Lenz 0 gauge system since I saw some pictures on their web site. Last year at the Winchester 0 gauge American/ Continental meet I made an "unplanned" purchase of two small carriages and followed that with an "impulse buy" of their "good value" start up set at the German Railway Society show at Sutton Coldfield this year. The set contained a Lok shunting loco, some wagons, track, one point and a Lenz DCC controller.
    The loco and rolling stock is DCC fitted for lighting and uncoupling, with the loco also sound fitted.
    I regularly visit Carl Arendt's Micro/small layout site and recently noticed a proposed small shunting layout set on a line cut by the internal border between East and West Germany in the 1950's. it allegedly fits into a space 1650 x 350 (See small layout scrapbook No 89 for Sept 2009 on
    www.carendt.us/scrapbook/page89/index.html)
    I hope to have slightly more space than Carl's correspondent allowed but haven't decided exactly how much.
    This blog will follow the planning and construction of the layout which is a German translation of a local place name. I hope my colleagues at the Liphook and District club will join in!
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    The space available turns out to be quite a bit more than the original plan so we have 2600 x 500 which should allow for some modelling of the "Iron Curtain". A 3 section baseboard has been constructed and the necessary 3 left hand points purchased, not Lenz, but Peco.
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    After a false start with a second-hand/recycled baseboard and waiting for Lenz to bring out long announced items, I am now under some pressure from colleagues at the Liphook club to get on with it.!
    It really will be a new start and the target date is the club's 2014 open day in October.
     
    Soltendieck is a real place in Northern Germany within commuting distance of Hanover and Hamburg. It is near to Lunberg Heath where the German Forces in this region surrendered to General Montgomery at the end of WW2
    It had a station on a line that ran from Berlin to Hamburg which was used extensively to move emmigrants from Berlin to Hamburg for transport to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century.
    With the division of Germany into East and West Germany in 1949 the line was cut actually a few kilometres east of Soltendieck and as a result all services on the West German side ceased. This was not always the case where lines were cut and some lines continued in use on each side of the border often without track alterations.
    In this instance the station building is just within West Germany and with some judicious shunting can operate as a passenger terminus as well as serving a long established grocery wholesalers warehouse. The East Germans have removed a section of the railway embankment at the border and a third of the warehouse has been lost. It will be set in Epoch 3 which covers the height of the Cold War.
     
    The first work is to layout out the proposed track layout on the 3300 x 600 footprint; then if all OK to build three baseboard sections approx 1100 x 600 each
    Track layout to follow.
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